SOLVEIG ORIGINALS

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Each day, I wake up excited. I step outside and look around in awe at the natural beauty that surrounds me. I live far from the maddening crowds in a paradise of nature’s majesty. I get inspired and I get to work.

I translate the vision into my graphic impressionist style of layered inset shapes of colour. I am in a spell, creating without thinking. Working my style and loving my work. I know nature’s healing, soothing touch and I try to communicate that effect through my art. I capture nature and share it with the world.

My style represents the way light falls on form. I simply isolate shapes of colour into their correct arrangement. I achieve depth and form by creating complementary colour edges, adapting Impressionist and Post Impressionist colour theories.

I want my palette to not only dazzle you but also bring my works to life. I want the intensity of contrasting colours and the dance of light and shade to create movement in my work. I want you to be able to step into my art and bathe in its natural beauty.

Australia’s premier

graphic impressionist

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The early years

From a young age, Solveig curiously observed the world around her: people, life, herself. She was fascinated with the way we represent the world to ourselves, through symbols, icons, images and words. Visual and auditory media were both incredibly stimulating and fascinating to the young artist. She played many games, enjoyed lots of creative play, writing and drawing.

Her passion for creative pursuits saw her through high school with a scholarship to the National Art School in Sydney. Solveig relished the wonderful, mind-bending student life. Four years of a Diploma of Painting and Sculpture flew by.

She indulged in the total artist’s experience. Deep in bohemian burlesque and cabaret life, engaging in colourful, creative self-expression. She lived the peak of the psychedelic era with lecturers like Martin Sharp, John Olsen, Ken Reinhard, the elite artists of the times.

Life’s little detours

Soon after college, Solveig closed the chapter on her wondrous, open-ended, free and expressive, abundantly creative life. And started a new chapter: mothering her three boys. As they grew up and into manhood, she stole moments to be creative and to follow

her artistic bent. The Australian taxation office called ‘art’ a hobby, so Solveig carried out more “responsible” work.

She became a psychologistand a hypnotherapist, gaining insights into the human condition. She sought wisdom around how we behave and we think, and why we do the strange things we do. Again, Solveig found inspiration. A stream of creative expression burst forth and her Healing Journey Series was born.

Solveig has been an unstoppable creative force

since, living a joyful life, mirroring her times and environment. Every day, she commits herself to being an artist, practicing her craft, honing her graphic impressionist style and creating the beautiful nature-inspired original artwork that fills her gallery.

Solveig’s style

Solveig’s style developed when she became infatuated with colour, both visually and psychologically. She looked at the artists that most excited her with their palette. The

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Impressionists and the post Impressionists won her over and she applied their colour theory to her work. Instead of painterly dabs of colour, Solveig chose to work in shapes of colour, bringing a more graphic effect to the impressionist manifesto.

Artistic process

Solveig takes her camera everywhere looking for scenes, elements, textures that inspire her. It may be a beautiful natural form or a landscape, a colour scheme, the twinkle in an eye. It might be the way diverse elements juxtapose to express a particular view on life.

Whenever the subject matter is that inspires her, Solveig goes into a trance-like state of translating it into her unique style. Once she is clear and has mapped out the colours and the process, Solveig uses a computer and digital projector to project the image onto a flat primed and sealed surface board. Solveig sketches a basic outline drawing of the elements of the composition with a flat square brush so that she has a range of thick and thin lines.

Then the fun begins

Once mapped out, Solveig roughly fills in the first layer of colours. These will end up being edge colours. The second layer of colour inset into the base colours leaving an edge that will be complementary, usually, to

the first layer. She continues this way for up to four levels, building the illusion of form and details as she goes. At level four, something amazing emerges and Solveig knows she has arrived at the result she envisaged in the first place.

Having painted many works over the years, Solveig has built up a trust in her skill and instincts to the point where painting is a subconscious undertaking. Her process from beginning to end is like a meditation: very present, loving, joyful and channeling co-creation.

Once complete and signed, Solveig seals the original artwork with a varnish. Her choice is always a matte varnish because she doesn’t want a reflective surface. Solveig would prefer people to feel like they could walk right in to the scene, sit down and feel the energy.

Solveig’s work

Solveig’s work is richly colourful and energetic. Not in a frenetic way, but alive and vibrating with the contradictions of colour combinations. Nature is Solveig’s focus and muse, and once inspired, Solveig designs the visual representation that will best express that co-creation. Nature is beautiful, calming, healing and meditative. She is also dramatic and thought-provoking.

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Scholarship to National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney. Four-year Painting and Sculpture Diploma.

Signwriting and Screen Printing business, Noosa.

Advertising Artist for George Patersons Ad Agency, Sydney.Outram McDonald Ad Agency, North Sydney.

Advertising Art Business, Byron Bay.

Solo exhibition of painting and montage, Byron Bay Community Centre. Participant in annual Art Auctions for local charities.

Artist in residence preparing paintings and relief sculptures for a two-man show, Sheraton Mirage, Port Douglas.

Exhibition with Peter Saint, Sheraton Mirage, Port Douglas.

Two portrait commissions, Port Douglas.

Committed to full time painting and studio work, selling work locally, Mullumbimby.

Permanent solo exhibitions at Cafe Mazah, Mullumbimby

“Up-Close and Personal” solo exhibition, Cafe Mazah, Mullumbimby.

Invited by the TV program “Colour in your Life” to produce a half-hour segment, showcasing my work, which has subsequently been distributed and viewed worldwide.

“Colourful Mullumbimbians” solo exhibition of 12 Portraits, Empire Cafe, Mullumbimby.

Production of “Colourful Mullumbimbians” promotional calendar, Mullumbimby.

Maintained a permanent studio, Mullumbimby.

Relocated to purpose-built studio on my own rural property, Mullumbimby.

Produced 13 works towards the “One-Piece Gallery” exhibition to be held early 2020.

Three works contributed to “Beyond Blue” exhibition, Forest Gallery, Mullumbimby.

15th Asia Contemporary Art Show, Hong Kong

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